Amazing
Speaking as a juggler (I can Mill's Mess three clubs on singles and cascade five balls, if that means anything) that was... mostly OK. By modern standards pretty pedestrian, but by the standards of back then, great. But...
The routine with the cigar boxes right at the end is fucking fantastic. I can do stuff with balls, clubs (and therefore also knives and fire), contact juggle, club swing, hat juggle, trick balance and so on, but the thing I've never, ever been able to master is the stop-go-stop rhythm of cigar box juggling. It is HARD, partly because it's so different from everything else. And he NAILS it. I do remember in one of the (too many) books I have on juggling, Fields is specifically name-checked as one of the all-time greats of that under-appreciated style.
(, Thu 8 Jun 2023, 9:00, Reply)